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Ask HN: What are things desktop applications do that web apps can't?

2 pointsby theterriblestidover 5 years ago
For example: controlling the mouse, which can't be done from a browser for security reasons.

4 comments

fuzzfactorover 5 years ago
Well, you can streamline & integrate an entire office's financial, scientific, engineering, marketing, sales, recordkeeping, paperwork, HR, and internal communication and it can be done with the utmost security & reliability when there is no wireless and no connection to the web whatsoever.
nineteen999over 5 years ago
Heavyweight media creation applications; eg. Blender&#x2F;ZBrush, Substance Designer&#x2F;Painter, Avid MC, ProTools, Adobe Premier&#x2F;AfterEffects, UE4 Editor.<p>I always get a chuckle out of web programmers who think that because they can do their entire job out of a few web apps, that everyone else can too.
cloudkingover 5 years ago
Fully interact with the operating system API&#x2F;SDK, not just a subset of it.
consultutahover 5 years ago
Process extremely large amounts of local data quickly.
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